Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi, Ltd.

Pentax Corporation

Sony Corporation

Sony Chemicals Corporation

Kao Corporation

Hoya Corporation

Dexerials Corporation

Asahi Kogaku Kogyo K.k.

Nikon Corporation

Seiko Epson Corporation

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Kinki University

Nittoh Inc.

Asahi Kogaku Kabushiki Kaisha

Tetsuya Abe

Sachio Hasushita

Yoshio Fujiwara

Takayuki Ito

Takaaki Yano

Naotake Kobayashi

Tahei Morisawa

Katsuhiko Nozaki

Ryota Ogawa

Makoto Mogamiya

Akira Murotani

Takashi Nozawa

Satoru Shinohara

Hidefumi Kaneko

Koichi Sato

Takashi Enomoto

Takayuki Sensui

Masaru Eguchi

Minoru Kase

Toshiteru Komatsu

Mitsuru Inoue

Hidetaka Yokota

Keiji Shibata

Kenji Ishii

Shinpei Fukuhara

Akihiro Uda

Yasuhiro Yamamoto

Shuzo Seo

Nobuhiro Tani

Yasushi Yamada

Shuji Yoneyama

Takeshi Endo

Kazushi Yoshida

Toshio Fukuda

Tetsuya Shirogane

Hirofumi Matsuo

Ichiro Taguchi

Shinichi Nishiyama

Tomohiko Suzuki

Naoki Koshikawa

Satoru Sugita

Tomonori Soeda

Shinji Yamamoto

Takashi Suzuki

Koichi Maruyama

Hiroshi Nakano

Yoshitaka Nakamura

Yuichi Kurosawa

Shinsuke Kohmoto

Akitoshi Sugio

Kimiaki Ogawa

Moriyasu Kanai

Nobuaki Abe

Masao Shimizu

Yasunori Arai

Yasuaki Nakamura

Hidetaka Iwai

Koji Endo

Nobuyuki Minowa

Shuichi Yamaguchi

Naoki Hosoya

Toshiki Nakamura

Eiichi Hoshino

Toshikazu Umemura

Akemi Sanada

Nobuharu Suzuki

Mutsuhiko Takeda

Masaharu Kimura

Susao Nakamura

Yukio Takaoka

Makiya Ito

Morio Sekiguchi

Rika Homma

Akira Amemiya

Masaki Iwasaki

Hideaki Ueoka

Michio Ohba

Teiko Kezuka

Eizo Maruyama

Tomonori Esaka

Tomotaka Furusawa

Masafumi Mizuguchi

Masahiro Umehara

Katsumasa Tanaka

Naoko Kumagai

Toyoki Hagura

Norihiko Satake

Toshimichi Harada

Shouji Yajima

Junya Moriwaki

Tsutomu Sukigara

Naoki Tanaka

Taisuke Aosaki

Takeo Suzumori

Kazunori Komori

Rui Takahashi

Keiichi Tezuka

Kiyokazu Kawaguchi

Atsuo Kabeta

Teruo Horizumi

A liquid leakage repair material includes: an inorganic filler in an amount of 20% by mass or greater but 95% by mass or less; and a curable composition that includes a monofunctional (meth) acrylate; a multifunctional (meth) acrylate; and a radical initiator. The target liquid to be prevented from leakage by the liquid leakage repair material is an oil. An oil absorption rate of the liquid leakage repair material after being cured is lower than 10%.

Repairing material for liquid leakage, repairing method for liquid leakage, and pipeline

Provided is an oil leakage repairing material, wherein the oil leakage repairing material is a curable composition, oil absorption of the oil leakage repairing material before curing is 100% or greater, and oil absorption of the oil leakage repairing material after curing is 50% or less.

Oil leakage repairing material, oil leakage repairing method, and pipe

Methods for producing a composition containing a hardly water-soluble aromatic compound are described which involve Step (1), including Step (1-1) for preparing a material comprising: (A) a hardly water-soluble aromatic compound, (B) a polyol, and (C) an aqueous medium, where a content of the (A) hardly water-soluble aromatic compound in the material for heating is below a saturation solubility of the (A) hardly water-soluble aromatic compound in a solvent having the same composition at 25&#xb0; C. The obtained solution is then heated in Step (1-2) at normal pressure at a temperature of less than 100&#xb0; C., to obtain a hardly water-soluble aromatic compound solution 1. Step (2) includes adding water to the hardly water-soluble aromatic compound solution 1 such that the resulting hardly water-soluble aromatic compound solution 2 has a concentration of the (A) hardly water-soluble aromatic compound above a saturation solubility at 25&#xb0; C.

Method for producing composition containing hardly water-soluble aromatic compound

A zoom lens system () for imaging, includes, in order from an object side (); a first lens group (G) with negative refractive power that moves at the time of zooming; a second lens group (G) with a positive refractive power that moves at the time of zooming, the second lens group including an aperture stop (St); a third lens group (G) with a positive refractive power, the position of which is fixed relative to the image plane. The second lens group includes: a first sub-lens group (S) with a positive refractive power arranged on the object side and having the aperture stop; and a second sub-lens group (S) with a negative refractive power arranged on the image plane side and configured to move independently of the first sub-lens group at the time of focusing.

Zoom lens system and imaging apparatus

Provided is a method of producing a solid dispersion that can improve solubility of a hardly soluble polyphenol in water. Specifically, provided is a method of producing a solid dispersion containing an amorphous hardly soluble polyphenol, the method including the steps of: mixing (A) a hardly soluble polyphenol, (B) at least one selected from the group consisting of a plant-derived polysaccharide, a seaweed-derived polysaccharide, and a microorganism-derived polysaccharide, a plant-derived polypeptide, and a microorganism-derived polypeptide, and (C) at least one selected from the group consisting of a monosaccharide and a disaccharide, followed by melting of the mixture by heating; and solidifying the molten product by cooling.

Method for producing solid dispersion containing hardly soluble polyphenol

A fluorene derivative represented by General Formula (1) below.X&#x2014;Y&#x2014;X&#x2003;&#x2003;General Formula (1) In the General Formula (1), Xrepresents a cyclic carbonate group including a carbonate bond [&#x2014;O&#x2014;C(&#x2550;O)&#x2014;O&#x2014;], Xrepresents a cyclic carbonate group including a carbonate bond [&#x2014;O&#x2014;C(&#x2550;O)&#x2014;O&#x2014;], and Y represents a bivalent group including a 9,9-bisaryl fluorene skeleton.

Fluorene derivative, method for producing the same, resin composition, and article

A storage system includes N nodes (N is an integer, equal to or larger than 2) coupled to at least one data processing system. A plurality of tenant spaces, based on the N nodes, contain Y1 tenant spaces (Y1 is an integer, equal to or larger than 2 and equal to or smaller than N) for a first tenant. The Y1 tenant spaces are based on Y1 node groups in the N nodes. Each of the Y1 node groups contains Q1 or more nodes (Q1 is an integer, equal to or larger than 1). For the first tenant, the storage system provides, to each of the Y1 tenant spaces, data units multiplexed Y1 times. From a first load-source tenant space from among the Y1 tenant spaces, the storage system loads a first data unit group containing one or more data units to a first load-destination data processing system.

Computer system and data management method

Provided is a production method for an ellagic acid composition excellent in solubility in water. The production method for an ellagic acid composition includes the steps of: mixing an aqueous medium with a raw material which contains a guava leaf extract and which contains, in solids thereof, 1 to 5% by mass of free ellagic acid to prepare a material for heat treatment; and subjecting the material for heat treatment to heat treatment at from 100 to 180&#xb0; C.

Method for producing ellagic acid composition

Provided are a vinylcyclopropane that exhibits volume expansion upon homopolymerization and that enables improved solvent solubility, a monomer composition that contains the vinylcyclopropane, a polymer of the vinylcyclopropane, a polymer composition that contains the polymer, and an article that is obtainable through curing of the monomer composition. The vinylcyclopropane is represented by general formula (I) shown below. 

Vinylcyclopropane, monomer composition, polymer, polymer composition, and article

An efficient disaster recovery system is constructed at three data centers. A data center includes: a business server for executing an application in response to an input/output request; a storage system for providing a first storage area storing data in response to a request from the business server; and a management server for managing a second data center or a third data center among the plurality of data centers as a failover location when a system of a first data center having the first storage area stops; and wherein the management server: copies all pieces of data stored in the first storage area to a second storage area managed by a storage system of the second data center; and copies part of the data stored in the first storage area to a third storage area managed by a storage system of the third data center.

Storage system and data management method

A zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, and a positive third lens group, in that order from the object side, wherein upon zooming from the short focal length extremity to the long focal length extremity, the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group decreases, and the distance between the second lens group and the third lens group increases. The second lens group includes a positive first sub-lens group and a negative second sub-lens group, in that order from the object side. The second sub-lens group is a focusing lens group which is moved along the optical axis direction during a focusing operation. The following condition (1) is satisfied:&#x2212;1.5&#x3c;2/2&#x3c;&#x2212;0.7&#x2003;&#x2003;(1),wherein F2 designates the focal length of the second lens group, and F2B designates the focal length of the second sub-lens group.

Zoom lens system

A method for manufacturing a refined fat or oil, including: carrying out a first steam treatment of bringing a fat or oil into contact with water vapor; and subsequently carrying out a second steam treatment of bringing the fat or oil having a temperature lower by 10&#xb0; C. or more than a temperature of the fat or oil in the first steam treatment into contact with water vapor in the presence of an organic acid.

Method for producing refined a fat or oil

Provided is a method for manufacturing refined fats and oils. Here fats and oils are brought into contact with an adsorbent and subsequently treated with water vapor under at least one condition of the following conditions. In condition I, the time for which the fats and oils are brought into contact with the water vapor in a temperature range of 175&#xb0; C. to 205&#xb0; C. for from 5 to 110 minutes. In condition 2, the fats and oils are brought into contact with the water vapor in a temperature range of 205&#xb0; C. to 215&#xb0; C. for from 5 to 50 minutes. In condition 3, the fats and oils are brought into contact with the water vapor in a temperature range of 215&#xb0; C. to 230&#xb0; C. for from 5 to 30 minutes.

Method for manufacturing refined fat or oil

Provided is an oil or fat composition, which has an MCPD-FS content (ppm) of 13 ppm or less, the content being measured by a Deutsche Gesellschaft f&#xfc;r Fettwissenschaft (DGF) standard method C-III 18(09), has a diacylglycerol content of 15 mass % or more, and is subjected to deodorization treatment.

Oil or fat composition

A drop in the access performance to a source volume is prevented by executing various control methods according to the snapshot usage method. A storage apparatus comprises one or more storage devices which provide storage areas; and a controller which creates a logical volume in the storage area provided by the one or more storage devices, and which reads and writes data from/to the logical volume according to a request from a host, wherein the controller acquires one or more snapshots which are data images at certain time points of the logical volume, wherein the controller determines whether the logical volume is subject to abrupt load fluctuations on the basis of performance information of the logical volume and the snapshots, and wherein, if the logical volume is subject to abrupt load fluctuations, the controller executes predetermined control processing according to usage cases of the snapshots.

Storage apparatus and method for controlling storage apparatus involving snapshots

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Tetsuya Abe